LEARNING FROM TOKYO
“Learning from Tokyo” is an exhibition and a symposium planned for spring 2012 in Zürich that showcases small scale housing projects by progressive architecture offices in Japan.
Archi-Neering Design Exhibition 2011 Tokyo
Hosoya Schaefer Architects was invited to exhibit the project, L(e)ichtraum, at the Archi-Neering Design Exhibition 2011 in Tokyo.
Wil-West
Hosoya Schaefer in collaboration with IBV Hüsler, Nüesch Development and Robin Winogrond Landscape Architects was commissioned to prepare a masterplan for a site next to Wil (SG), Switzerland.
Swiss Pavilion Expo 2012 Yeosu
Hosoya Schaefer in collaboration with Exponential Group, Shanghai and Luxoom, Berlin have been selected by Präsenz Schweiz as one of five teams to prepare a proposal for the Swiss Pavilion at the World Exposition 2012 in Yeosu Korea.
Butterfly House
Hosoya Schaefer Architects are commissioned to design a private house in Ain, France. Construction of the house is scheduled to begin in spring 2012.
Badrutt’s Palace Hotel
Hosoya Schaefer Architects together with projX management gmbh, Pontresina, were commissioned to propose a new restaurant design for the Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
Andermatt Swiss Alps
Hosoya Schaefer was commissioned to design a villa type for the Andermatt Swiss Alps Resort.
Metrobild Zürich
The Metrobild (image or concept plan) for the Metropolitan Region of Zürich has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Conference of Zürich. This conference is a cooperation of municipalities, cantons and cities in the region of Zürich with the aim to further improve the region and its location factors.
Apartment Building Wallisellen
Proposal for an apartment building in Wallisellen. The building takes advantage of the local building code on a small site to propose terrace apartments for seven parties.
New Metabolism
Hiromi Hosoya is teaching an advanced options studio at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. The studio with the title “New Metabolism” is researching possibilities and generating projects for redeveloping the site of the World Exhibition 1970 in Osaka.
Interview in Domus China
WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR CHINA’S ARCHITECTS
Markus Schaefer was interviewed by Brendan McGetrick for Domus China.
INSELTERRASSEN
MASTERPLAN INSELSPITAL – BERN, SWITZERLAND
This masterplan competition was organized by the department of real estate and buildings of the canton Bern together with the hospital “Insel”. Hosoya Schaefer Architects were one of nine international offices which pre-qualified for the competition.
Interview with Jürg Conzett
Hiromi Hosoya interviewed Jürg Conzett in Chur, Switzerland, 2010 for Journal of Architecture and Building Science published by Architectural Institute of Japan.
Universum der Ozeane
Hosoya Schaefer Architects and shiftcontrol, Copenhagen, in collaboration with unitystudios, Aarhus completed an online application for zdf.de. The game accompanies the three-part documentary “Universum der Ozeane” with Frank Schätzing on ZDF’s TerraX and allows the visitor to explore the oceans in a dive robot or five different avatars.
Venice Biennale – German Pavilion
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to make a contribution to the German Pavilion curated by Cordula Rau, Eberhard Tröger and Ole W. Fischer.
Beyond Rational
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit an installation at the newtech Club, Schlieren in Switzerland.
VENICE BIENNALE – L(E)ICHTRAUM
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited and is exhibiting an object titled “L(e)ichtraum” at Austrian Pavilion entitled “Austria: Under Construction” designed and curated by Eric Owen Moss. The exhibition will be open for public from August 29, 2010.
Skolkovo Innovation Center
Markus Schaefer is acting as an adviser for urban design and planning to Maxmakers, Zürich, who has been charged with preparing a development strategy for the new Skolkovo Innovation Center.
Digital Realities
Schaefer, Markus: “Digital Realities”. in: Archithese, no.4, Juli/August, 2010
Sustainable Urban Patterns
Swiss National Science Foundation, National Research Programme NRP 65 – Joint Research Project “Sustainable Urban Patterns (SUPat)”
MOBIGLOBE FILM
Research and film project on sustainable mobility for Autostadt, Wolfsburg by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2010
VERTICAL FARM
This study has been prepared by Hosoya Schaefer Architects to illustrate the concept of vertical farming. The project is featured in the Mobiglobe 3.0 films which the office produced for Autostadt / Volkswagen.
VERTICAL GARDENS
Hosoya Schaefer Architects was invited to participate a competition to design the building complex on the edge of the central park planned in the Masterplan Smartinska implemented by Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG in 2008.
Capital City
Schaefer, Markus and Celik, Matevz: “Capital City”. in: Oris-Magazine for Architecture and Culture, no 62, June 2010
THE ESSENTIAL HOUSE
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Architectural Design Studio by Hiromi Hosoya, 2010
SWISSCELL PAVILION
Hosoya Schaefer is asked to design a temporary office space using “SwissCell” material in Zollverein, Germany.
MUOTAPARK
MASTERPLAN “MUOTAPARK” – BRUNNEN, SWITZERLAND
Urban design competition 2010
CONGRESS CENTER ZÜRICH
Hosoya Schaefer was commissioned by the city of Zürich to study potentials of one of the sites for a new congress center to be planned in the city.
ST. MORITZ STATION
Urban design study 2009 – selected as a basis for planning proposal
“Sun Peak”, the project proposed by Hosoya Schaefer and IBV Hüsler AG for the RhB railroad station in St. Moritz has been chosen as the basis for further development together with the project developed by GMP, Germany.
Balkanology – Architekturzentrum Wien
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit Šmartinska Partnership, a mater plan project in Ljubljana at the Architekturzentrum Wien, Austria.
BONSTETTEN
Competition 2009 – 2nd Prize
This housing complex has been commissioned by a developer for a village near Zürich with a large traditional housing stock and very strict building regulations.
NATURE MUSEUM ST. GALLEN
Competition to design a nature museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2009
ZDF NEWS STUDIO
Hosoya Schaefer Architects has been part of an interdisciplinary team working on the new heute news studio at ZDF. The brief was to create a studio that allows new ways of moderating newscasts on TV, but has implications also for online and other new media.
Global Phenomena of Automobility
Hosoya Schaefer Architects: “Global Phenomena of Automobility”. in: transit, Band I – Triebkräfte der Architekturentwicklung, Juni 2009, p. 122-127
Smartinska Partnership
Schaefer, Markus: “Smartinska Partnership Ljubljana”. in: Urbana Prenova, Drustvo urbanistov in prostorskih planerjev Slovenije, Ljubljana 2009, p. 103-106
Die Perfekte Stadt
Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer are featured in “Das Magazin” in the issue 2009/12 “Menschen, denen die Zukunft gehoert”.
MORE THAN HOUSING
This project, a competition organized by the private housing cooperative “Mehr als Wohnen” and the city of Zürich, is conceived to provide 320 apartments and shared amenities on a formerly industrial site in Zürich with the aim of conforming to the vision of the 2000W society.
ART BASEL
Competition to design an exhibition space for the leading art fair ART BASEL in 2009. This project aims to propose a consolidated, yet permeable grid structure with large and small, individual and collective spaces.
Mobility and Immobility in the New Architecture Practice
Jilly Traganou’s interview with Hiromi Hosoya and Markus Schaefer on “Mobility and Immobility in the New Architecture Practice” in 2009.
Light Capital
Schaefer, Markus: “Light Capital”. in: SAM, Balkanology, New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in South Eastern Europe, 2008, p. 42-45
DRS4 Talk
Finn Canonica’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Sustainable Systems: An Agenda for a Science of Cities” in 2008.
Balkanology – Swiss Architecture Museum
Hosoya Schaefer Architects is represented with the Šmartinska Partnership project and a text “Light Capital” by Markus Schaefer.
PARTNERSHIP SMARTINSKA
Competition 2008 – 1st Prize
Hosoya Schaefer won the competition for Smartinska Parntership, a 230ha integrated masterplan in Slovenia, and completed its first phase in May 2009.
AIRPORT ENGADIN
Competition 2008 – 1st Prize
Engadin Airport near Samedan – St. Moritz, Switzerland, held a competition for a new airport building including a large restaurant, a hotel, facilities for events, and hangars for aircrafts, helicopters and gliders. Overall a total of 28’000 sqm had to be planned when including parking space.
SCALE SHIFT
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Architectural Design Studio by Hiromi Hosoya, 2008
Cities in Motion – Bucharest
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Research and Urban Design Studio by Markus Schaefer, 2008
Constructing Strategies
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Seminar on design process by Markus Schaefer, 2008
Sustainable Systems
Schaefer, Markus: “Sustainable Systems: An Agenda for a Science of Cities”. in: Review, Institute for Art and Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna 2008, p. 72-85
Cities in Motion – Centrope
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Wien – Research and Urban Design Studio by Markus Schaefer, 2007/8
HYPERCORE OFFICE
2008 Holcium Sustainable Construction Acknowledgement Award (Category Europe)
The project is an office building located at the center of the Milano Santa Giulia development which contains 1.2 million square meters of newly built space. Milano Santa Giulia is located in Milan, 4km away from the city center.
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Competition to design a building to symbolize a new identity for the WTO site in Geneva, Switzerland, 2008
HOUSE OF PEACE
Competition to design a “House of Peace” in Geneva, Switzerland, 2008
The building consists of two main elements: the institutional office spaces organized as a floating ring and the “Espace Académique” located under and inside the ring.
Cross Media Architecture
Schaefer, Markus: “Cross Media Architecture” in Achammer (ed.): Corporate Architecture (Wien: TU Wien, 2008), p. 36-47
GEROLDSTRASSE
A commission to propose a concept for mixed use buildings at Gerold area, Zürich, Switzerland, 2008
Design as research – research as design
Erhard An-He Kinzelbach’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Design as Research – Research as Design” in 2007.
…Weil Widersprüche Oft nicht zu Vermeiden Sind
Schaefer, Markus: “Weil Widersprüche Oft nicht zu Vermeiden Sind” in Fulvio Pelli (ed.): 37 Gründe ein Liberaler zu sein, Zürich, Orell-Füssli 2007, p. 91-93
Eine Freisinnige Parabel
Schaefer, Markus: “Eine Freisinnige Parabel” in Fulvio Pelli (ed.): 37 Gründe ein Liberaler zu sein, Zürich, Orell-Füssli 2007, p. 80-83
MILANO SANTA GIULIA – la RINASCENTE
A commission to design a mixed use building located at the center of the Milano Santa Giulia development which contains 1.2 million square meters of newly built space. The project includes the program of a department store, la Rinascente, and housings on top.
SBB BAUFELD E
Competition to design a mixed use building in Zürich, Switzerland in 2007
ANAN FURNITURE
The custom furniture has been developed in collaboration with Quinze & Milan’s designer Alain Gilles. An earlier concept has been developed with a dutch industrial designer, Jan Melis. The furniture aims at being as simple and comfortable as possible. The furniture is executed in QM FOAM ™ and powder coated steel tubes.
Light Capital
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit ‘Light Capital: Urban Scripts for Ljubljana’ at the City Hall in Ljubljana.
Japan Now – Cornell University
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit projects at the Cornell University, Ithaca in New York, and to speak at the conference ‘Japan Now: Country Positions in Architecture’ at Cornell University and the Japan Society in New York.
Cities in Motion
Hosoya Schaefer is part of a team awarded a grant by the Swiss Federal department for culture for the development of a documentary movie on mobility. The documentary will be produced by Condor Communications (producer: Patrick Müller) and Interscience Film/Gero von Boehm and coauthored by Chris Reuter and Markus Schaefer.
Der Totale Finanzplatz
Markus Schaefer is featured in Hochparterre, no.08 in 2006.
Scripting
Jennifer Sigler and Roemer van Toorn’s interview with Markus Schaefer on “Scripting: Light Capital, Ljubljana” in Hunch, 2006.
Venice Biennale – Projecting the City
Invited by the 10th Venice Architecture Biennale, Cities, Architecture and Society, curated by Richard Burdett, the Berlage Institute showcases its distinctive approach to contemporary architecture through an exhibit in the Italian Pavilion of the Giardini from 10 September to 17 November.
Ljubljana: Urban Scripts for a Light Capital
Schaefer Markus, “Ljubljana: Urban Scripts for a Light Capital” in: Hunch No.10, Mediators, The Berlage Institute, Rotterdam Summer 2006, p 128-129
LIGHT CAPITAL
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam – Research and Urban Design Studio: “Light Capital – Urban Scripts for Ljubljana”, 2005
Light Capital: Urban Scripts for Ljubljana
The Berlage Institute Research Report No. 10. “Light Capital: Urban Scripts for Ljubljana”. (Rotterdam: Berlage Institute, 2006)
Building Hospitals – Hospital Buildings
Schaefer, Markus: “Building Hospitals – Hospital Buildings” in: Cor Wagenaar (ed.): The Architecture of Hospitals. (Rotterdam; NAI, 2006)
FLOATING HOUSE
The task for the Innovida project was to think in new ways and design an unconventional structure using a technology, which originated in the boat building industry. The material used is a sandwich board with a polyurethane core, coated by fiberglass – produced and licensed by Innovida.
MOBIGLOBE
Research and media project on global phenomena of (auto)mobility for Autostadt, Wolfsburg by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2006
Technology and Shopping
Interview with Markus Schaefer [pdf] Sara Manuelli: “Interview with Markus Schaefer of Hosoya Schaefer Architects, Zurich, Switzerland”, in Sara Manuelli (ed), Design for Shopping, Abbeville Press, New York, London 2006, p.36-43
B-Zone – Becoming Europe and Beyond
Hosoya Schaefer participated in the exhibition ‘B-Zone, Becoming Europe and Beyond’ at the Kunst-Werke Berlin curated by Anselm Franke with work by Ursula Bieman, Angela Melitopoulos and Lisa Parks.
OMA/AMO – Architektur als Medium
Schaefer, Markus, “OMA/AMO – Architektur als Medium”, in: Archplus, Dezember 2005, p. 36-37
Mapping Global Cities
Research and mapping project on global cities by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2005
Mapping Switzerland
Mapping Switzerland is an exhibition curated by Pius Freiburghaus and organized by the Perforum at the Kulturzentrum Seedamm. It looks at maps, art and myths. It attempts to find new ways of describing the identity of Switzerland ranging from the scientific to the artistic.
Designing Process
Schaefer, Markus: “Designing Process”. in: exhibition Breeding Tables: La Racolta by Kram Weisshaar held with Ingo Maurer at Spazio Krizia, Milano, April 13-17, 2005
THE ARCHITECTURE OF HOSPITALS
Berlage Institute, Rotterdam – Research and Design Studio: “The Architecture of Hospitals”, 2004
ANAN
Competition 2005 – 1st prize
Hosoya Schaefer designed a Japanese Noodle Restaurant on the theme of “Tokyo” in Wolfsburs, Germany in 2005
Out of Fashion / Content by AMOMA
Schaefer, Markus and Nicolas Firket: “Out of Fashion”. in: Rem Koolhaas (ed), Content (Köln: Taschen, 2001), p.326-331
From Form to Performance
Schaefer, Markus: “From Form to Performance”. A+U, Spatial Tactics of Fashion. vol. 7, no.406 (2004) p. 112-119
De Intense Stad
Hosoya Schaefer Architects were invited to exhibit their project “Vondellaan te Groningen”, a 30,000 m2 mixed use building in Groningen, the Netherland. The project was a part of the housing campaign “INTENSE CITY: 35 bold building projects in Groningen” exploring intensification and mixed programming in 35 locations in the existing city area.
MAPPING SWITZERLAND
Research and mapping project on Switzerland by Hosoya Schaefer Architects, 2004
VONDELLAAN
MIXED DEVELOPMENT – GRONINGEN, THE NETHERLANDS
The project is a part of the housing campaign, “35 bold building projects in Groningen, INTENSE CITY” exploring intensification and mixed programming in 35 locations in the existing city area. The campaign aimed at building a surplus of 10,000 dwellings within the city area.
Brand Zone
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Brand Zone”. in: Rem Koolhaas et al. (eds), The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (Köln: Taschen, 2001), p.164-173
Psychogramming
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Psychogramming”. in: Rem Koolhaas et al. (eds), The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (Köln: Taschen, 2001), p.558-575
Redemption
Schaefer, Markus: “Redemption”. in: Rem Koolhaas et al. (eds), The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (Köln: Taschen, 2001), p. 586-589
Tokyo Metabolism
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Tokyo Metabolism”. in: Rem Koolhaas et al. (eds), The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (Köln: Taschen, 2001), p.748-763
Bit Structures
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: Bit Structures. In: Koolhaas, Rem et al. (eds): The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. (Köln: Taschen, 2001)
Tokyo Metabolism – The Japanese Convenience Store
Hosoya, Hiromi and Schaefer, Markus: “Tokyo Metabolism – The Japanese Convenience Store”. in: Tokyo Life, London May 2001, p. 19-21